{"id":29,"date":"2008-07-01T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ikriv.com:8765\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-07-01T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T21:23:02","slug":"flap-the-four-letter-acronym-proliferation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"FLAP: the Four Letter Acronym Proliferation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be LAN, WAN, SAN, COM, DOM, ROM, TCP, UDP, FTP, CPM, IBM, JVM, then URL, XML, UML, &#8230; But it looks like the era of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TLA\">TLA<\/a>s is over. After all, there are only 17,576 possible combinations of three English letters, and this is definitely not enough.<\/p>\n<p>So, welcome to FLAP. There used to be a couple of lone warriors like LISP and ISDN, then we&#8217;ve got HTML, SOAP, OLAP, MSDN, FQDN, ASDN (well, I made this one up, but then found out it actually does mean something), and now it&#8217;s a deluge. Everything I look at is a FLAP. WSDL, BPEL, BPMN, WSCI, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, hopefully ~446K combinations ought to be enough for everybody \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be LAN, WAN, SAN, COM, DOM, ROM, TCP, UDP, FTP, CPM, IBM, JVM, then URL, XML, UML, &#8230; But it looks like the era of the TLAs <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}